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Emma

‘Very well, I am much obliged to you. My mother is
delightfully well; and Jane caught no cold last night. How
is Mr. Woodhouse?—I am so glad to hear such a good
account. Mrs. Weston told me you were here.— Oh!

then, said I, I must run across, I am sure Miss Woodhouse
will allow me just to run across and entreat her to come
in; my mother will be so very happy to see her—and now
we are such a nice party, she cannot refuse.—‘Aye, pray
do,’ said Mr. Frank Churchill, ‘Miss Woodhouse’s opinion
of the instrument will be worth having.’— But, said I, I
shall be more sure of succeeding if one of you will go with
me.—‘Oh,’ said he, ‘wait half a minute, till I have finished
my job;’—For, would you believe it, Miss Woodhouse,
there he is, in the most obliging manner in the world,
fastening in the rivet of my mother’s spectacles.—The
rivet came out, you know, this morning.— So very
obliging!—For my mother had no use of her spectacles—
could not put them on. And, by the bye, every body
ought to have two pair of spectacles; they should indeed.
Jane said so. I meant to take them over to John Saunders
the first thing I did, but something or other hindered me
all the morning; first one thing, then another, there is no
saying what, you know. At one time Patty came to say she
thought the kitchen chimney wanted sweeping. Oh, said

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